Lost in the Eurofog: The Textual Fit of Translated Law

Biel, Łucja

doi:10.3726/978-3-653-03986-3

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“…the work on legal genres by Bhatia [8,9]. A methodological turn towards computer-based corpora and corpus linguistics is now increasingly detectable, especially within forensic linguistics [33,46], translation studies [10,11], and genre analysis [17,20,37,38]; the corpus-driven study by Kopaczyk [32] on the development of the legal language of Scottish Burghs should also be highlighted in this context. Most of that work, however, is for descriptive purposes only and lacks the critical view on language use in the legal field that is adopted in this paper.…”

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Constructing Achievement in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis

Potts

Kjær

2015

Int J Semiot Law

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The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the UN Security Council in 1993 to prosecute persons responsible for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia during the Balkan wars. As the first international war crimes tribunal since the Nuremburg and Tokyo tribunals set up after WWII, the ICTY has attracted immense interest among legal scholars since its inception, but has failed to garner the same level of attention from researchers in other disciplines, notably linguistics. This represents a significant research gap, as the Tribunal's public discourse (notably its case law and Annual Reports) can open up interesting avenues of analysis to researchers of law, language, and legal discourse alike. On its official website, the Tribunal claims that it has ''irreversibly changed the landscape of international humanitarian law'' and lists six specific achievements: ''Holding leaders accountable; bringing justice to victims; giving victims a voice; establishing the facts; developing international law and strengthening the rule of the law''. While a number of legal scholars have studied and critiqued the level of 'achievement' actually attained by the Tribunal against these metrics and others, of interest to linguists is the ways in which this work might be conveyed discursively. In this paper, we demonstrate how methods from the linguistic field of corpus-based critical discourse analysis can be utilised to explore the discursive construction of such achievements in the language of the ICTY.

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Constructing Achievement in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis

Potts

Kjær

2015

Int J Semiot Law

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“…term-embedding collocations or multi-word terms) frequency should not be the only criterion (cf. Biel 2014). In addition, if studying terminology and phraseology of a specific branch of law, a single act may be the only source of law applicable to the branch in the respective jurisdiction, and creating a larger corpus would compromise the homogeneity of the data.…”

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“…This has started to change recently and there has been a shift towards quantitative and mixed approaches, very often including corpus linguistics (e.g. Biel 2014, Pontrandolfo 2016. Outside the area of legal translation, corpora have also been considered for other uses (cf.…”

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confidence: 99%

Los corpus en la traducción jurídica y su uso para resolver la asimetría terminológica y fraseológica entre el checo y el inglés

Klabal

2019

CLINA

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“…In the research under discussion the primary objective was to identify potential distinctions in the stylistic structure of the legal texts belonging to a communicative context that is specific and homogenous, yet varying in sociolinguistic and genre-related background. The study is intended to be a modest contribution to the corpus-based studies (See: for example, Baker, 2004;Pontrandolfo, 2015;Biel, 2014), making use of the concept of shallow features, also referred to as discrete units (See: Legallois, Charnois & Meri Larjavaara, 2018), processed in a supervised way (See: Longerée & Mellet, 2018). The author is aware of the shortcomings of the analyses based on the processing of discrete units, as voiced in the literature of the subject (See: Longerée & Mellet, 2018), yet the aim of this paper is to go somewhat beyond the basic model of this kind of analysis in which texts are thought to be mere material to be statistically processed and -firstly -take account of the sociolinguistic background of the texts and -secondly -possibly develop the qualitative description component.…”

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Sociolinguistic and Grammatical Aspects of English Company Registration Discourse

Więcławska¹

2019

HSS

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The paper examines the complexity of legal communication in English in the context of its stylistic variantivity. The research examines whether the variable of genre and selected sociolinguistic factors affect the grammar of legal texts, and, specifically the quantitative distribution of verbal structures. The analysis fits in the paradigmatic approach to generic and sociolinguistic studies, where the distribution of discrete units is presented in quantitative terms. The operationalisation of the research involved the identification of the relevant linguistic material in the corpus, its statistical processing, and conducting relevant R analysis to determine potential correlations. The findings showed that the legal texts making up the corpus were not stylistically homogenous; the varied provenance of the source texts (from a diatopic and diachronic perspective, and in terms of genre profile) affected the stylistic structure/grammar of the texts; the frequency distribution of same grammatical categories tended to be discriminative for various categories of texts. The research makes a contribution through addressing legal communication within the realm of secondary genres that are underrepresented in legilinguistic studies, constituting a significant yet problematic domain from an intra-and inter-linguistic perspective. The findings obtained in the analysis and patterns are of practical use in multinational , institutional environments, where English is used as a lingua franca in corporate communication. Moreover, the conclusions drawn provide a foundation for studies on legal translation in professional settings, including the didactic perspective.

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Lost in the Eurofog: The Textual Fit of Translated Law

Cited by 94 publications

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Constructing Achievement in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis

Constructing Achievement in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis

Los corpus en la traducción jurídica y su uso para resolver la asimetría terminológica y fraseológica entre el checo y el inglés

Sociolinguistic and Grammatical Aspects of English Company Registration Discourse

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